Category: Research

Citizen science projects are becoming ever more popular, with new applications developed all the time. Conservation charities are not being left behind in this field, with more and more opportunities for enthusiastic and...

Yesterday, MCS announced an exciting partnership with company Silentnight, to transform some of the million plastic bottles bought every minute, into mattresses. The UK’s leading marine charity, The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has...

By James Watson, The University of Queensland; James Allan, The University of Queensland; Kendall Jones, The University of Queensland; Pablo Negret, The University of Queensland; Richard Fuller, The University of Queensland, and Sean Maxwell,...

By Emily O’Connor, Lund University Animals have a habit of moving. Sometimes these movements are truly epic. Migratory birds regularly traverse the globe between temperate and tropical regions, a feat that would require considerable...

Scientists have shown for the first time that the blueprint for the four chambers of the human heart exists in the humble zebrafish, a study in eLife reports. The discovery provides key insights into processes...

April 22, 1970. 20 million American citizens take to the streets, parks, public buildings and anywhere else that will house them to publicly demonstrate their contempt for their governments current environmental policy, to...

Orcas on the Edge: A quest to film the critically endangered southern residents The Issue The southern resident killer whales (SRKW) represent the smallest of four groups of orca found in the northwest...

75% of the worlds crops are dependent on pollination in some way or another. Despite the volume of pollinator-dependent crops increasing 300% in the last 40 years, there is growing concern about the...